A livelihood perspective on natural resource management and environmental change in semiarid Tanzania

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dc.contributor.authorBirch-Thomsen, T.en
dc.contributor.authorFrederiksen, P.en
dc.contributor.authorSano, H. O.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialIkuwala subvillageen
dc.coverage.spatialIlula villageen
dc.coverage.spatialIringa Districten
dc.coverage.spatialTanzaniaen
dc.coverage.temporal1955 - 1998en
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T18:08:33Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T18:08:33Zen
dc.date.issued2001en
dc.description.abstractThe aim of this paper is to explore how social relations influence land use and natural resource management at the local level. Through empirical analysis that tracks changes in land use and environment over 40 years, we present evidence of a process of agrarianization based on commercialization of crops and expansion of cultivated land. With the concept of livelihood strategies as an analytical framework, subcommunity processes are analyzed for their impact on intensification and degradation. Accumulating strategies are linked to expansion, commercial crop production, and selective intensification through high-value inputs, while at the other end of the scale, peasant-labor households endure exhausted or marginal potential land resources combined with lack of flexibility in input consumption. The article shows how degradation and intensification occur simultaneously and how incomes may increase even during processes of land degradation. We argue that a livelihood approach can be useful in uncovering and explaining these processes.en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier454en
dc.identifier.citationEconomic Geography 77(1): 41-66en
dc.identifier.issn0013-0095en
dc.identifier.other454_A_Livelihood_Perspective_on_NRM.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/65518en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherWorcester, Mass.: Clark Universityen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.clarku.edu/econgeography/pdf/getPDF.cfm?pdf=77103-birchen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2005 by Clark Universityen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectRural developmenten
dc.subjectHumid zonesen
dc.subjectSemiarid zonesen
dc.subjectIncome generationen
dc.subjectSustainable developmenten
dc.subjectCommercializationen
dc.subjectLivelihoodsen
dc.subjectTropical zonesen
dc.subjectLand use managementen
dc.subjectNatural resource managementen
dc.subjectFarming systemsen
dc.subjectLivelihood strategiesen
dc.subjectEnvironmental changesen
dc.subjectLand degradationen
dc.subjectLand use intensificationen
dc.subjectTanzaniaen
dc.subjectEcosystem Farm/Enterprise Scale Governanceen
dc.titleA livelihood perspective on natural resource management and environmental change in semiarid Tanzaniaen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
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